Single-player games like Making History: The First World War
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Making History: The First World War, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Imperiums: Greek Wars
Single-player alternative to Making History: The First World War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The First World War.
Unique combination of turn-based 4X and historical grand strategy with a mythological twist. Explore the ancient world and build a world leading civilization. Survive, expand, conquer... and win!
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Europa Universalis IV
Single-player alternative to Making History: The First World War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The First World War.
Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.
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HUMANKIND™
Single-player alternative to Making History: The First World War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Making History: The First World War.
Rewrite history by shaping a civilization as unique as you are. Combine 60 cultures from the Ancient Era to the Modern Age to lead your empire to victory. Build thriving cities, outsmart rivals in epic battles, spread your influence and leave your mark on HUMANKIND™.
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Age of History 2: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Making History: The First World War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The First World War.
The grand strategy classic returns with improved gameplay, a massive 13,892 province map, expanded diplomacy and wartime capitulation, new civilizations and scenarios, atomic weapons, smarter AI, enhanced visuals, UI upgrades, and major performance improvements.
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Millennia
Single-player alternative to Making History: The First World War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The First World War.
Create your own nation in Millennia, a historical turn-based 4X game that challenges your strategic prowess across 10,000 years of history, from the dawn of humanity to our possible futures.
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Rogue State Revolution
Single-player alternative to Making History: The First World War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The First World War.
Greetings your Excellency. Time to rebuild, reform and prepare for new challenges in the People's Republic of Basenji. In this thrilling political strategy, you will appoint ministers and lead the country to success. Be careful — you may find yourself replaced in the next election.
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Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升
Single-player alternative to Making History: The First World War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The First World War.
A Giant Strategy Sandbox experience set in Warlord China. *Tons of playable factions! *Communist insurgents, * Boxers like rebels, *Greedy warlords, *Mongol riders, *A mad russian baron, *Shanghai gangsters, *And armored trains!
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Sid Meier's Civilization VII
Single-player alternative to Making History: The First World War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The First World War.
The award-winning strategy game franchise returns with a revolutionary new chapter. Sid Meier's Civilization® VII empowers you to build the greatest empire the world has ever known!
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Making History: The Great War
Single-player alternative to Making History: The First World War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The First World War.
The Great War is a turn-based grand strategy game based on the epic struggles of the WWI era. Experience the battles of attrition and punishing artillery barrages. Play as any nation of the period as the modern world of industrialized warfare replaces an age of kings with a struggle of ideologies.
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Hearts of Iron IV
Single-player alternative to Making History: The First World War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The First World War.
Victory is at your fingertips! Your ability to lead your nation is your supreme weapon, the strategy game Hearts of Iron IV lets you take command of any nation in World War II; the most engaging conflict in world history.
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Tiny Civilization
Single-player alternative to Making History: The First World War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Making History: The First World War.
This is a historical simulation game that promotes the development of civilization based on the match-3 Game. You'll need to gather resources, use skills, discover new technology, and lead humanbeing through a 10,000-year journey to the cosmos.
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Making History: The Second World War
Single-player alternative to Making History: The First World War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The First World War.
Choose a nation and prepare for the greatest conflict in human history, World War II. Build your military and industrial power, form alliances and race to achieve the advanced technologies that will bring total victory in this global-wide turn-based Grand Strategy struggle.